Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is looking to orchestrate two high-profile IPOs in one year
Abercrombie & Fitch Begs the Fat Kids for Another Chance
How will we tell the cool kids from the uncool kids now?
Dow Jones Hits New Record High
The stock market index beat the record it set last Tuesday by 66 points
‘Call of Duty Ghosts’ Breaks $1B In First-Day Retail Sales
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Sales of the latest Call of Duty video game surpassed $1 billion in sales to retailers during its first day in stores, video game-maker Activision Blizzard said Wednesday.
Call of Duty: Ghosts, the military-themed shooter video game released on Tuesday, is the 10th installment in the decade-old …
Twitter’s IPO Will Make These Men Very, Very Rich
Also see the surprising ones who are getting nothing.
Blockbuster Is Closing Its Last 300 Stores
Ending DVD-by-mail service too
How Twitter Slayed the Fail Whale
On Friday, August 2, two very surprising things happened on Twitter. At 7:21 PM Pacific Time, users sent 143,199 tweets in a single second, a new record for Twitter activity. Most of the posts came from Japan, where TV viewers
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Mattel Is Counting on Latina Moms This Holiday
Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter Drucker had a childhood marked in large part by seriousness and sorrow.
As a boy, he was included in the weekly salons that his father and mother held with writers, musicians, economists, …
The Generation That Made It Through the Recession Without a Scratch
Older folks came through the recession with their wealth and income more intact than other age groups. The difference maker: traditional defined-benefit pensions.
Meet the Federal Government’s ‘Optimism Agency’
New FCC chief Tom Wheeler, who once wrote a book about Lincoln and the telegraph, calls the Internet a “hinge moment” of history
The Problem With Rising Home Prices
The housing market is back, right? For well over a year now, housing prices nationally have been appreciating at a rapid pace, with some markets like Dallas and Denver recently touching all-time highs. Overall, housing prices are …
5 Signs This Holiday Season Is the Most Competitive, Desperate Ever
When a store opens at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning to kick off a 41-hour shopping marathon, it sniffs of desperation. That’s just one indication retailers are now engrossed in a desperately competitive holiday period.